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As has been mentioned, good year for tomatoes. So why not have them for breakfast? Open-faced heirloom tomato sandwiches. A few slices of good Comté alongside.

It's a pretty good tomato (and corn) season here in the Northeast. Pasta w/raw, small heirloom tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella.

Rewatching??!! I've watched it like 1,000 times - and still can't decide whether I like "1" or "2" the most.

Yes, Circle Star Theatre, in San Carlos, CA! July, 1983 And this is what happened to the Circle Star: The building caught fire on April 18, 1997, damaging much of the backstage area, though by this time plans had already been made for its demolition. The theater was ultimately demolished to make way for the Circle Star Center, a complex containing two four-story office buildings and a small hotel.[5] Since 2015 or 2014 Softbank owns the buildings and uses them as offices. The hotel is now an Extended Stay America.[citation needed]

I very much enjoyed the issue, especially the piece about Richard Pryor, undoubtedly the greatest stand-up I ever got to see live. And if you’ve never listened to the albums, or seen the movies…especially recommend Live in Concert and Live on the Sunset Strip.

Had these really nice heirloom "cherry" tomatoes along with blanched green and wax beans. Tossed with a (if I do say so myself) delicious walnut-miso dressing, from Hiroko Shimbo's The Japanese Kitchen cookbook. What in Spain might be called socarrat, in Japan might be called okoge. My okoge game was strong last night, in this donabe rice with salmon, halibut and hijiki.

A couple varieties of tomato, fancy cucumber (Lani's) and sweet onion. Pasta al pesto with Romano beans.

Not used much, but have been in the collection for a long time.

Fake Puntarelle Alla Romana; using endive instead. Fake veal piccata; using chicken instead (and boy, does this make for a quick dinner). Rice, with broccoli steamed atop for the last 5 minutes, in the Zojirushi.

How about to make people more aware of the songs, so that they might want to go and listen to (or, god forbid, buy) the originals? Maybe you don't know the true audience that well - is that possible?

That was of no import; went to a good cause!

This past weekend... A real, hard copy ticket!

Good old Ed.

Great report, Seth!

I don’t even think that’s limited to preseason.

I was able to secure a res at Mon Lapin, but it certainly looked as if they were taking walk-ins. It's not a tiny place by any stretch. We've eaten at Joe Beef a couple of times and tbh at this point, I'm more a fan of Vin Pap...suits our style of eating a little better.

Yes - I didn't post about it?? We were there at the end of May. Really like Vin Mon Lapin, which Ori had told us about prior to our previous trip. Still great on this most recent visit. Vin Papillon was very good. We finally got to L'Express, which was fine, just because it's L'Express, but the food doesn't approach the other two mentioned. Sabayon is supposedly really great (from others who have eaten there). Chef is Patrice Demers, who was doing some of the best pastry, at his now closed pastry shop. Looks as if some hoop jumping is necessary to get in though. I like Jean-Talon and Atwater Markets, I guess because I like markets, and these are 2 great ones. Plenty of good coffee. We end up here, Café Myriade, because our airbnb was within walking distance of one of their locations. Plenty of good cocktails, too. https://www.instagram.com/patrice_demers/ https://www.instagram.com/sabayon.mtl/ And if you need the fix of smoked meat, I'd say avoid the tourist hell that is Schwartz's, and go here instead: Snowden Deli It's classic. Should I mention that the restaurants are not quite as reasonable as they once were, but the dollar is still going strong (and actually looks even better than it did when we were there in May). Enjoy - it's one of my favorite cities, although if you're driving (as we were), the roads are possibly the worst roads of any city in North America.

Pork scallopini (or piccata, whichever you prefer; there are 3 or 4 thin slices of pork under the lemon, butter, white wine, capers, and garlic sauce). Roasted baby potatoes and cabbage wedges. A pretty tasty, quick and easy dinner.

Yikes.

I'm curious, but not really interested...a friend just sent this picture... Former site of Alleva Dairy.

Interesting as I didn't realize that rice could be grown in the climate of "upstate" NY. As mentioned before, I usually buy rice from The Rice Factory, which offers an amazing selection and ability to specify degree of milling for the rice. But now I gotta try this place - might even be worth a drive up to the farm store! The Rice Factory does sell this: SYOKUSAN】Rice flour Special "For Sweets" -きぬふわやか 米粉 スイーツ用- But I have no idea if it's a sub for mochiko, and it looks pretty expensive compared to the Koda stuff. @Orik - what other products have you gotten from Great Joy farm? They have a lot! Went down a tiny rabbit hole... https://cals.cornell.edu/news/2019/10/can-rice-be-grown-new-yorks-climate

But aren't they two majorly different offerings?

Do you follow or know of Kathy's Blog...https://onolicioushawaii.com/about/ An old friend who actually came to a few of our dinner clubs...like 15 years ago. https://www.instagram.com/onolicioushawaii/

I just had to run down the block... Recently packaged, at the end of May, so probably the last of their production.

Summer continues... With another caprese salad, with dashes of balsamico. Baguette alongside.